Trash Tracked

Zotter's Migration Of Receipts

by Stephen Von Worley on January 20, 2011

Garbage has legs, and in Migration Of Receipts, designer Cameron Zotter maps the travels of 150 discarded sales slips found during a 48-hour canvas of downtown Baltimore. He also gives us some trash-tossing insight: apparently, litterbugs prefer to gorge on chips and soda before they dine at McDonald’s.

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